Printing inks



printing inks having good good moisture resistance can be obtained by the use of the reaction product of Vinsol and an alpha Patented Dec. 4, 1945 PRINTING INKS Francis J. Jeuck, Chicago,

and Charles A. Riots,

Park Ridge, 111., asslgnors to Interchemical Corporation, New York, N. Y., a corporation of Ohio No Drawing. Application January 28, 1944, Serial No. 520,108

3 Claims.

This invention relates to printing inks designed to be set by the application of water thereto and to provide an inexpensive ink of this type, charaoterized by good resistance to humidity during the printing operation.

Inks which may be dried by the application of water upon the freshly printed film and methods of printing with such inks are disclosed and claimed in Gessler et al. United States Patent No. 2,157,385, dated May 9, 1939. Such inks contain a water-soluble solvent, usually a polyglycol or a polyether alcohol. When water is sprayed upon or otherwise added to a printed film of an ink of this character, it causes the ink binder to be precipitated so that upon evaporation or removal of the solvent and water, such as by penetration into the paper, the ink is substantially dry. Due to the fact thatthe solvents best suited for use in these inks are hygroscopic, difliculties in operation are encountered when the weather is humid.

Various methods have been suggested to overcome this problem, among others the use of rosin modified by the diene addition of maleic, furnaric acid or similar alpha beta unsaturated acids (United States Patent No. 2,244.104, June 3, 1941). While somewhat improved resistance to humid weather is obtained with these inks, they still leave much to be desired.

In our copending application Serial No. 458,457, filed September 12, 1942, we have disclosed that printing properties and beta unsaturated polybasic acid dissolved in a water-soluble polyglycol or polyglycol derivative.

We have now discovered that the condensation of the .Vinsol with maleic anhydride is not neces-' sary, and that satisfactory moisture setting printing inks can be obtained from Vinsol alone in comb nation withwater-soluble polyglycols as the solvent. I

Vinsol is a material obtained in the preparation of wood rosin. In preparing the Vinsol resin, the stumps are disintegrated or shredded, and the shredded material is extracted in large heated cylinders by means of a solvent such as benzol or some other suitable aromatic hydrocarbon. The solvent extracts the Vinsol resin along with the rosin. turpentine. pine oil and miscellaneous other materials from the shredded stumps, after which the liquid is subjected to a distillation process. In the distilling cycle, the solvent is the first material to be removed, followed by the tur entine and finally the pine oil, the residue consisting of rosin and Vinsol remaining in the still. The molten resin is then run into a hot mixture of gasoline and furfural. The mixture is then allowed to stand and settle until two liquid layers have formed, one consisting of gasoline and rosin, and

5 into sheet metal containers and distributed therein in the market. The exact chemical composi tion of the Vinsol resin is not definitely known. It has been estimated, however, that the Vinsol resin consists essentially of a highly oxidized form of abietic acid, and much smaller proportions of resin acids, polyphenols, ligneous materials, and unoxidized abietic acid. It can be described as a petroleum hydrocarbon insoluble resin derived from pin wood.

Typical examples of our invention are the following:

Example 1.-Black ink Parts by weight Lamp black 2.6 Carbon black 10.1 Petrolatum 3.5 Dipropylene glycol 28.9 Vinsol 25.9

Diethylene glycol -1 21.9 Iron blue 3.0 Methyl violet 1.3 Talc v 2.8

This ink is press-stable, and sets rapidly upon being sprayed with-steam or water.

Other similar inks are the following:

Example 2.Black ink Parts by weight Lamp black 1.45 Carbon black 10.63 Petrolatum 3.15 Dipropylene glycol 46.50 Vinsol 32.00

40 Iron blue 4.15 Methyl violet 2.05 Alkali blue .07

Example 3.-Bldck ink Parts by weight Lamp black 2.6 Carbon black 10.1 Petrolatum 3.5 Vinsol 30.0

Diethylene glycol 46.7 Iron blue 3.0 Methyl violet 1.3 Talc 2.8

the other consisting of Vinsol and furfural. The latter layer is then run through a continuous whereby the furfural is removed, and the Vinsol resin comes out in a hot molten state, being run Examplescan of course be multiplied indefi- 5 nitely without departing from the scope of the invention. In particular, the pigments shown can be replaced by all of the other common printing ink pigments such as iron blue, chrome yellow, aao pigments, phthalocyanine blue, alkali blue,

and the like. Dyestuffs such as methyl violet may still also be used. While we have disclosed only 'diethylene glycol and dipropylene glycol as solvents in the specific examples, other water-soluble polyglycols and water-soluble polyglycol derivstives can be used;

We claim: 4 v

1. A typographic printing ink characterized by press-stability under humid conditions. combined with the ability to be set by the addition 01 water to the film oi the ink, comprising essentially a solution of s petroleum hydrocarbon insoluble resin derived from pine wood in a. water soluble polyglycol.

2. A typographic printing ink characterized by press-stability under humid conditions, combined withthesbilitytobesetbythesddition otw ter to the film of the ink. comprising essentially a solution of s. petroleum hydrocsrbon insoluble resin derivedirom pine wood in s. solvent comdipropylene glycol.

v FRANCIS J. JEUCK. CHARLES A. BIETZ.

Certificate of Correction Patent No. 2,390,102. December 4, 1945;

FRANCIS J. JEUCK ET AL.

It is hereby certified thaterror appears in the printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows: Page 1, first column, line 26, for Patent N o. 2,244.104 read Patent No. 2,244,103; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oflice.

Signed and sealed this 3rd day of August, A. D. 1948.,

THOMAS F. MURPHY,

Assistant Commissioner of Patents. 

